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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, July 27, 2022:
Today:
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 80. Light southwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 70s to low 80s through the week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.
- 1663 The British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
- 1777 The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
- 1861 President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
- 1905 The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.
- 1906 Birth of Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager.
- 1909 Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
- 1944 U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.
- 1953 Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjom, Korea.
- 1964 President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
